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Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.
Jean Baudrillard
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Jean Baudrillard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 29
Died: 2007
Died: March 6
Anthropologist
Literary Critic
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Sociologist
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Ḻāṉ Pōtriyā
Unconscious
Animals
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Since
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Territory
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